Why the NBA is not what it used to be 18 Articles

by Rubee Kola

Why the NBA is Not What it used to Be Think back to all the great rivalries of the NBA in recent years, and you'll think less about competition and the battle of skill, and more about egos and the battle of fists. ...read more

by Jaye Studevan

The reason the NBA is not what it used to be can be summed up in three words: expansion, talent and greed. Not that the league hadn't always been a league of expansion, and teams like the Chicago Bulls and San Antonio Spu...read more

by Kenneth Watkins

The NBA in many people's eyes is a real joke and I am one of those. We have gone from a game of pure basketball to something that I do not even have a clue about. Teams twenty and thirty years ago worked as a team and yes ...read more

by Robert Steadman

I have quit being a fan now for the past 7 yrs. I really liked basketball back in the days of Irvin "Magic" Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Kevin Johnson, Micheal Jordan, Isiah Thomas. Those guys were about winnin...read more

by Dewey

The National Basketball Association has done this to themselves. The league has over-marketed to the point where most people are turned off. The current generation of youngsters are the most adept at recognizing and shunni...read more

by Todd Pheifer

I used to be a big fan of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Now, I give it a casual glance once in a while, but for the most part I focus my attention elsewhere. I suppose in some ways I am no longer the target ...read more

by R. Thomas O'Brien

We have entered a new realm of understanding how the NBA works. The Tim Donaghy scandal has yet to reach full-scale proportions, however it is expected to become the biggest news story to emerge from the league since Ma...read more

by Nick Gutierrez

NBA Gone Soft The NBA is not what it used to be because they way the game is played. The rules now are so sensitive and favor the offensive player way too much. Basketball was not invented to be physical sport, but NB...read more

by Paul Erland

No, the NBA isn't what it used to be - but who is? Professional basketball has changed, indeed, but whether for better or worse, well, that depends on one's prejudices, of course, and also on one's experience and perspect...read more

by Jared Jarvis

When was the last time you found yourself watching an intense rivalry between two great NBA teams? A rivalry so heated that your own adrenaline started to rush just by watching it. Rivalries such as Bulls vs. Knicks, Rocke...read more

by Kerry Kauffman

The NBA over the past several seasons is not anywhere near the caliber of play that it was when I was growing up watching good TEAM basketball in the mid 1970's through the late 1980's, into the early 1990's. Scoring is ...read more

12 of 18

by Michelle Craig

The NBA has gotten boring, predictable, and ridiculous. Factual. Three words. San Antonio, ridiculously horrible teams, and David Stern. I'll recap. So the San Antonio Spurs are slapping and body slamming their ways...read more

by Phillip Fears

The Portland Trail Blazers, in the last three years, were ridiculed for their lack of moral integrity. But with the subtraction of some trouble-making players, like Zach Randolph and Rasheed Wallace, and the addition of ...read more

by C. L. Taylor

What am I watching here on TV? I guess it's the NBA Finals. That's what it says on TV. That's what the commercials are promoting. But it's not the NBA that I used to love and obsess over. Those days seem long gone. T...read more

by Michael White

Last week I was driving in my car listening to a classic hip hop song, "I Used to Love Her," by the talented hip hop artist Common. "I Used to Love Her" is a ode to hip hop that expresses Commons' love for hip hop but his...read more

by Brad Yoho

The main reason that the NBA is not as strong of a product as it could be is a result of the officiating as opposed to the level of play. Teams like the Phoenix Suns, Golden State Warriors and the Washington Wizards (wh...read more

by Gerald Jones

The NBA is not what is used to be for one reason. Fundamentals, short and sweet. The reason San Antonio wins every other year is because they play the most fundamentally sound basketball in the league. Now you will see a...read more

by Ashlee Sterling

The NBA is definitely not what it used to be. Considering this are the players and how they perceive this game to be. As well as all may know that the National Basketball Association was first organized in the 1940's. That...read more